Example sentences of "things that [pron] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er there was no constraints erm within the project or within the responsibility statement on saying that somebody else should be responsible for certain things that we felt were outside our , our remit . |
| 2 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 3 | This seems erm , over the top , I erm , I do n't honestly think the provision of garages is absolutely essential in the light of the things that we 've been cutting up which are essential , erm , and in number two . |
| 4 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 5 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 6 | And I know colleague directors in the country who are green with envy at some of the things that we 've been able to do even in these difficult times . |
| 7 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 8 | There are a number of , sort of a dictionary of useful phrases , I mean you actually used one or two just now , and one of the things that we suggest is that people when they 're not under the pressure of being in the studio , which after all for them is alien territory , that they should actually have one or two of these useful phrases which do cover a , a multitude of embarrassing situations , if you want to put it that away . |
| 9 | Er I suppose erm er the , most of the people I 've seen in the last ten years have been people either approaching retirement , planning for retirement or actually at the point of retirement and er we 've obviously looked at this course over a number of years and we try to sort of distil it down to the basics of things that we think are important er and that we think will be useful to you . |
| 10 | The residue one is a problem as well Chairman , because when we had the sheep dipping campaigns , one of the things that we did was to , to just carry out some very quick rough checks at markets in this county to see whether in fact sheep were being withheld from slaughter sale for the required period . |
| 11 | But all these things that we have been discussing — rediscoveries in the history of art , changes in taste , etc — all this makes me wonder . |
| 12 | The responsibility will now be theirs and they 'd better get on with it and better show things that they 've been arguing and get along . |
| 13 | Erm , it does n't matter what I propose , whether it actually makes out things that they 've been talking about or whether it 's completely found something to criticise about it . |
| 14 | These poets are trying to speak for the lost generations , condemned forever to inarticulacy ; and to speak aloud about simple things that they had been forbidden even to think about . |
| 15 | When they get together and they need money , the old school tie , the old party tie comes into play and money can be found for things that they think are profitable for them and their consultancies , and their companies , and their interests . |
| 16 | ‘ People send you things that they think are exotic or bizarre , but when you listen to them a lot of them are just band copies of hits people just trying to sound like the Beatles . |
| 17 | Er the things that she said were that women used more hedges , such as I think er hedges are sort of things that get put into the conversation if al allegedly if somebody wants to give the impression that they 're not quite sure , and they would n't w You know like I would n't want to say it for sure but I think that . |
| 18 | I think that recently we seem to have had such , so many changes in the health authority , so many different peoples in the post who all seem to be doing the same sort of thing , who 've got the Family Health Services Authority set up , but it would seem to me that some of the things that are on this piece of paper are things that I understood were being done by the Family Health Services Authority . |
| 19 | When David did things that I thought were stupid , or when he did n't turn up , or he 'd turn up ‘ high ’ , I told him I thought he was stupid . |
| 20 | I mean some people adopt the approach of trying to d do it all in about two hours just before the deadline so they do n't have time to feel self critical erm I think perhaps if you can , you know , rather than , rather than trying to do it all at once I mean the business of , of going through successive drafts of things and gradually getting them better and better , I mean the first drafts of things that I write are , are usually just scribbles on the back of a piece of paper that 's , with something else on the front |
| 21 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 22 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 23 | also some of the things that I 've been going on with , doing this one with three , and I do n't know if it , they 'll stay in the can long enough for that . |
| 24 | There were a lot of little things that I felt were wrong . |
| 25 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 26 | Because , as I say , we 've got recycling credits on our side , we 've got the fact that we 've got this outlet in Exmouth which will take the paper , and that 's why we 're looking at producing this workshop area , so that a lot of this stuff that goes to landfill , I 'm talking about , fridges , tables , whichever else that can be repaired and reused er , I know this is only on a very small scale , but one of the things that I think is very important with is that we 're not purely a recycling centre , we also want to set an education project , to raise people 's awareness of what yo yet waste production is n't about recycling , it 's about not producing it in the first place , |
| 27 | One of the things that I think is most unfortunate is that parents sometimes say to their youngsters ‘ You need to go to school in order to learn how to behave ’ . |
| 28 | Yes , but one I mean one of the things that I think is often smuggled in to discussions of class is value judgements erm along the lines of one class is better than another . |
| 29 | We can apply the test to the technical and technological subjects , and not only those , but the professional subjects also ; and the boundary line will run now on this side , now on that ; but the things that it divides are different in kind , and only on one side of that line lies what we ought to allow to be education . |
| 30 | We always have to have things that you know are easier to do or are not s such a hassle with the environment . |